Improved Wind Power Forecasting Using Combination Methods

2015-12-11
KOKSOY, Ceyda Er
OZKAN, Mehmet Baris
BUHAN, Serkan
DEMIRCI, Turan
Arslan, Yusuf
Birtürk, Ayşe Nur
Karagöz, Pınar
Integration of the wind power into the existing transmission grid is an important issue due to discontinuous and volatile behavior of wind. Moreover, the power plant owners need reliable information about day-ahead power production for market operations. Therefore, wind power forecasting approaches have been gaining importance in renewable energy research area. The Wind Power Monitoring and Forecast System for Turkey (RITM) currently monitors a growing number of wind power plants in Turkey, and uses wind power measurements in addition to different numerical weather predictions to generate short-term power forecasts. Forecasting models of RITM give considerably good results individually. However, forecast combination approaches are frequently used in order not to rely on a single forecast model, and also utilize forecast diversification. In this paper, an analysis of wind power domain and the current wind power forecasting methods of RITM are presented. Then, three main forecast combination approaches, namely L-p-norm based combination, FSS (Fuzzy Soft Sets) based combination and tree-based combination, are proposed to provide better forecasts. These combination methods have been verified on forecasts data of RITM in terms of normalized mean absolute error (NMAE) metric. The experimental results show that all of the applied combination methods give lower NMAE rates for most of the wind power plants compared to individual forecasts.

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Citation Formats
C. E. KOKSOY et al., “Improved Wind Power Forecasting Using Combination Methods,” 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42562.